Episodes

Feb. 17, 2023

S3E7 - Azure Stack - Take Azure with you to the Edge

Azure Stack enables organizations to bring the capabilities of Azure to the Edge, into your datacenter and on prem.

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Feb. 10, 2023

S3E6 - Microsoft Defender for Office - Protecting users from phishing…

Not just protecting your users but having the ability to assess the organisation’s knowledge on detecting phishing attempts and the capability to educate them.

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Feb. 3, 2023

S3E5 - Confidential Computing in Azure - Apply Zero Trust Principles …

Organisations increasingly want to ensure that data confidentiality standards are maintained to a high level. Confidential Computing in Azure gives organisations multiple mechanisms to protect data which is in use within Azure.

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Jan. 27, 2023

S3E4 - Privileged Identity Management - Secure Azure and Azure AD

Just-in-time access for Azure, Azure AD, AWS, GCP and other AAD integrated applications

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Jan. 20, 2023

S3E3 - Do the same for less - 15 ways to reduce your costs in Azure

Who doesn’t love saving money? Reduce your Azure costs, with 15 hand picked tips from the trenches.

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Jan. 13, 2023

S3E2 - Azure Virtual Desktop - Providing access to applications and d…

Secure access to organisation information using AVD

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Jan. 6, 2023

S3E1 - Azure MFA - Securing access to your corporate environment

Easily secure Azure and Office 365 with a click of a button

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Nov. 25, 2022

S2E21 - Season Finale! - End of Season Recap

Alan and Sam discuss how Season 2 has gone. They discuss their best episodes, the podcast stats and what the plans are for Season 3 in the new year. We would like to say thank all their listeners of this season and look forwa...

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Nov. 18, 2022

S2E20 - Microsoft XDR – Create a Holistic View of Your Environment

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft XDR and why it is now becoming a requirement in organisations. They both take the role of the 'Expert' and explains what XDR is, how it helps reduce security risk. What did you think of this epi...

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Nov. 11, 2022

S2E19 - Microsoft Power Platform – Power to the Users

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Power Platform and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily build internal apps, automate process, and present data us...

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Nov. 4, 2022

S2E18 - Microsoft Defender for IoT – Discover and protect your IoT De…

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Defender for IoT and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation to reduce cyber risk. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily discover your device exposure risk ...

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Oct. 28, 2022

S2E17 - Microsoft Sentinel - Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR capabilities

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Sentinel can help organisations have visibility of malicious activity in their environment. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the capability of Microsoft Sentinel and how it i...

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Oct. 21, 2022

S2E16 - Microsoft Ignite 2022 - The In-Person Experience

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft Ignite 2022, the announcements and how the in-person experience vs remote was. Sam quizzes Alan on his experience in Seattle and ignite. Link to the Ignite 2022 Book of News - Here What did you ...

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Oct. 14, 2022

S2E15 - Azure Sphere – Securing IoT Devices from Silicon to Cloud

Alan and Sam discuss Azure Sphere, it's features and the security and operational value it can bring to your IoT estate. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his experience with the Azure Sphere Development Kit. Wh...

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Oct. 7, 2022

S2E14 - Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

Alan and Sam discuss Microsoft's Threat Vulnerability Management and why it is a useful tool have in an organisation to reduce cyber risk. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily discover your devi...

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Sept. 30, 2022

S2E13 - Architecting Serverless Applications in Azure/O365

Alan and Sam discuss how server applications in Azure can help you to more efficiently build applications for your business in a different way to traditional application development. We both take the role of the 'Expert' and ...

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Sept. 23, 2022

S2E12 - Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Classify and Secur…

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Purview Information Protection can help label, classify and protect your data in Office 365 . Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily start labelling document, as...

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Sept. 16, 2022

S2E11 - Microsoft Purview Data Governance Portal

Alan and Sam discuss how the Microsoft Purview – Data Governance Portal can help you to manage and govern your organisations data. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the 'Train the Trainer' event that he particip...

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Sept. 9, 2022

S2E10 - Microsoft Entra – Azure AD – Identity Governance

Alan and Sam discuss how Identity Governance within Azure AD, part of Microsoft's Entra family of identity products can help with your user lifecycle. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how Entitlement Managemen...

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Sept. 2, 2022

S2E9 - Microsoft Entra Permission Management - First Look

Alan and Sam take a first look at Microsoft Entra permissions management. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how the product allows you to discover and remediate permissions creep in your multi-cloud environments...

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Aug. 26, 2022

S2E8 - Securing Multi-Cloud environments with Microsoft Defender for …

Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Defender for Cloud can help Secure your multi-cloud environments. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains how you can easily gain visibility of your multi-cloud environment and how ...

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Aug. 19, 2022

S2E7 - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Alan and Sam take a look at The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Sam takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his experience with the Cloud Adoption framework and highlights the reasoning about considering using the fra...

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Aug. 12, 2022

S2E6 - Microsoft Entra – Securing and Managing Cloud Identities

Alan and Sam discuss how Azure AD, part of the Microsoft Entra family can secure your identity in the cloud. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains his viewpoint of the product and why we should consider the premium...

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